It caused physical destruction: the software made the expensive and delicate centrifuges run at the wrong speed, wrecking them.

First, there would be the cost of building works, professional fees and subsequent storage - physical destruction or sale of a rejected statue are distasteful options.

This was not about negotiating, holding ground or winning 'hearts and minds', but of destroying the enemy's will to fight by a lethal combination of physical destruction and rapid manoeuvre.

Physical destruction may be necessary to securely erase devices such as memory cards and unusable hard disks.

The cost in loss of life, physical destruction, and ruined lives was enormous.